Stories from Saturday, August 20, 2005

Richie Gandy, who is the favorite to start at center for Tennessee this year, said Friday that the knee injury suffered during Thursday's practice is unrelated to the one suffered earlier this year. "This is a new injury," Gandy said of his patellar subluxation, or partial dislocation of the kneecap. "It has nothing to do with the ACL reconstruction I had in the spring. Regardless of whether or not I had undergone ACL surgery, this injury would have occurred."...

Many young adults are preparing to move from home and attend college for the first time. This is a huge step and brings both fear and excitement to the young man or woman getting ready to branch out on a whole new life. Many see it as freedom and the ability to have no curfew or rules. This is where college freshmen make mistakes...

Several thousand dollars worth of jewelry, a camera and five collectors' item sports cards were stolen from an El Bethel Road home Wednesday afternoon. The cards included Wayne Gretzky and Ray Bourque 1980 National Hockey League rookie cards, 1939 Ted Williams and 1985 Roger Clemons baseball rookie cards and a Peyton Manning 1998 National Football League rookie card...

An 18-year-old Bedford County man started his senior year at Cascade High three days after graduating from Army basic training at Fort Sill, Okla. Eric Wright, son of Mitchell and Cindy Wright, has heard of another Middle Tennessean who spent summer vacation in boot camp, but he doesn't know who he or she is...

Each member of the Bedford County School Board ought to substitute for randomly selected teachers this year to show their appreciation for their work. That suggestion from School Board member Dixie Parker was accepted by consensus among board members when they met Thursday night at the system's central office...

Despite advice to the contrary from state planners, Bell Buckle's planning commission passed on the issue over a water tap for a subdivision on the edge of its Urban Growth Area to the town council without recommendation. Greg Curl has requested a 6-inch water line extension with 18 taps for the Meadowview Estates subdivision, which will have a Wartrace mailing address. The final plat for the subdivision has already been approved by the county...

Bedford County Sheriff Clay Parker got a recommendation last week which, if approved as anticipated, will allow him to tell inmates at the county jail and workhouse, "Smile! You're on a county camera." Color video and sound recordings will be made by the surveillance cameras Parker wants to install at the county buildings to reduce, if not eliminate, the chance of lawsuits because of frivolous complaints filed by prisoners...

Mrs. Mae Pugh Batten, 84, of Farmington died Friday in Lewisburg. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Farmington Baptist Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. Wayne Cable and the Rev. Ray Gilder officiating. Burial will follow at Hopper Cemetery. (Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill)

Funeral services for Edith Nadine Eley, 88, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Russ Countess and James Eley officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.